BY J. J. FLETCHER. 273 



Heleioporus pictus is not conspicuously coloured, resembling some 

 specimens of L. dorsalis. The specimen sent me by Mr. Sloane 

 when alive might be described as follows : — Pupil erect ; iris 

 silvery or golden veined with black, the anterior half with a dark 

 horizontal mark forming with the contracted pupil an incomplete 

 cross (cf. the complete cross in Hyla peronii, as already pointed 

 out by Dr. Giinther). Colour above pale olive with darker spots 

 and patches, tolerably uniform but lighter on the flanks and limbs, 

 and with a wash of bright yellow about the thighs and upper arms, 

 a faint light vertebral line ; beneath blotched on each side of the 

 throat [no dark streak from the tip of snout to the eye in this 

 specimen]. Fingers free, toes fully webbed, the webbing extending 

 to the tips of the digits ; [Mr. Boulenger says " toes two-thirds 

 webbed ;" in my Mudgee specimen the toes might be said to be 

 about two-thirds webbed, but I know this specimen was put into 

 strong spirit, and I fancy the webbing is somewhat shrunk.] The 

 specimen is a breeding male, 40 mm. long from snout to vent ; as 

 in Limnodynastes there are two brownish rugosities on the inner 

 side of the two inner digits of each hand ; inner metatarsal 

 tubercles black. Mr. Sloane found the specimen lying very close 

 in a small cavity, with only his back visible, under a log close to 

 the edge of a swamp. 



We know so little of Victorian frogs [Professor McCoy has 

 figured three more or less cosmopolitan species in Decade v. of the 

 Prodromus of Victorian Zoology; and seven are recorded in Mr. 

 Boulenger's Catalogue, or in the second of two supplementary lists] 

 that no apology, I think, is needed for recording the two following 

 collections. 



Crinia signifera does not appear to have been previously 

 recorded, though judging from the presence of twelve specimens 

 in Mr. Froggatt's collection, it would seem to be as common in 

 Victoria as elsewhere. 



(a) From Benalla, Victoria (collected by Mr. T. G. Sloane). 

 Limnodynastes dorsalis Crinia signifera 



Pseudophryne bibronii 



